The Black Arts Movement
50th Anniversary Celebration
passing the baton
February 7, 2015
Laney College, Oakland CA
Aside from the above texts, the autobiographies of Amiri Baraka and Marvin X are critical to an understanding of the Black Arts Movement, the most radical artistic and literary movement in American history.
Black Arts Movement Co-founders, Amiri Baraka (RIP) and Marvin X
Support the Black Arts Movement/Post News Group Isaiah 61 Project
"Bring the prisoners out of darkness"
Working Program
10:00 AM--Welcome by BAM Wellness Director, Empress Diamond, Black Arts Movement Physical Wellness Boot Camp, facilitated by Michael Bennett's Wellness Team from the YMCA, HP/Bayview:
Lynn Cole.
John Davis
Michael Kirkman
Rachel Fiapoto
Michael Bennett/ Physical Activity, Nutrition Health and Wellness Director.
Location: Quad Area, Track
11:00AM-- Peer Group on Mental Wellness: How to Recover from the Addiction to White Supremacy Peer Group, facilitated by Dr. Nathan Hare and Suzzette Celeste, MPA, MSW
Location: Student Union
12 Noon--Book Fair--authors speak, MC, Aries Jordan; music by D.J. Lamont
Authors: James Gayles, Aries Jordan, Judy Juanita, Duane Deterville, Menhuam Ayele, Dr. Nathan Hare, Avotcja, Elaine Brown, Kweli Tutshainda, Marvin X
Location: Quad
2pm--Open Mike Poetry/Speak Out, MC Javier Reyes
Location: Quad
2pm--BAM and Black Women Writers Panel; moderated by Elaine Brown; invited panelists: Judy Juanita, Avojtcha, Aries Jordan, Phavia Kujichagulia, Portia Anderson, Nefertiti Jackmon
Location: Odell Johnson Theatre
4pm Black Arts Movement/Black Power Babies panel, moderated by Davey D; invited panelists: Phavia Kujichagulia and Taiwo; Dr. Ayodele Nzinga and Stanley; Terry Collins and Renya; Walter Riley and Boots Riley; Marvin X and Nefertiti
Performance by YGB of Youth Speaks
Location: Odell Johnson Theatre
Note: BAM/Black Power Babies is the creation of Muhammida El Muhajir, daughter of Nisa Ra and Marvin X. Muhammida now lives in Ghana, West Africa.
Nisa Ra, Muhammida El Muhajir, Marvin X
BAM/Black Power Baby, Ras Baraka, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey,
son of Amina and Amiri Baraka
MX and Black Power Baby (Panther Cub) Chairman Fred Hampton, Jr. of the Prisoners of Consciousness Committee (POCC)
6pm - RECEPTION IN THE ART GALLERY: EXHIBIT OF SAN QUENTIN PRISON ART and Bay Area Visual Artists; curated by Professor Leslee Stradford;
Community visual artists: Emory, James Gayles, Duane Deterville, Malik Seneferu, Woody, Renaldo Rickets, Claude Clark
Host, Paul Cobb, Publisher, Post News Group
Invocation, Suzzette Celeste, Practitioner & Social Justice Activist
Welcome, Laney College President, Dr. Elnora T. Webb
Proclamation of Black Arts Movement District, Libby Schaaf, Mayor of Oakland
Councilwoman Lynette McElhaney on the Black Arts Movement District; host, Paul Cobb, Publisher, Post News Group;
Music by Earle Davis, Fantastic Negrito
Location: Laney Art Gallery, Tower Building
7pm Laney College Theatre: Marvin X's BAM classic play Flowers for the Trashman,
introductory remarks by Dr. Nathan Hare, father of Black Studies, founding publisher of the Black Scholar Magazine
Produced by The Lower Bottom Playaz
Director: Dr. Ayodele Nzinga
Bud
Stanley
Koran
Location: Odell Johnson Theatre
BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra at BAM Conference, University of California, Merced, Feb./Mar 2014; a Kim McMillan/Marvin X production
8pm Black Arts Movement Poet's Choir and Arkestra with special guests John Santos, Muziki Roberson, Phavia Kujichagulia. BAM Poet's Choir and Arkestra members: Joan Tarika Lewis, Avotcja, Aries Jordan, Samantha Akwei, Genny Lim, Paradise Jah Love, Mechelle LaChaux, Tureada Mikell, Val Serrant, Tacuma King, Earle Davis, Lakiba Pittman, Kalamu Chache', Rashidah Sabreen, Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, Zena Allen, Destiny Muhammad, Marvin X (Director)
Location: Odell Johnson Theatre